Pan-Pacific Cook Book by SOLD - McLaren, L. L. (Linie Loyall) - 1915: Savory Bits From the World's Fare

Octavo (9 X 6 inches) San Diego, California: Liberton & Taylor, 1888. First Edition. 218 pages, illustrated with photographs and engravings, presentation inscription from W. L. Prouty who, according to the Directory of San Diego City and County for 1893-94, was the Superintendent of Streets. Good condition, original limp cloth showing wear and light stains from handling.The date and title are written discreetly on the spine.

Van Dyke was a prominent journalist who wrote several books that reflect the history of the San Diego region. In this book he states, "I have been asked to sketch the history, topography, resources and progress of the city and county of San Diego, up to date." He includes agriculture, climate, outdoor amusements, and biographies in his descriptions.

Octavo (8 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches) Oakland, California, early 20th century paper advertisement printed on coated stock folded once to form four panels printed on both sides, illustrated with halftone sepia photos of the interior rooms and a bird's-eye map on the back cover. Original, good condition (rubber stamp of Peck-Judah on one panel, not affecting contents).

Promoting Oakland and the Hotel Metropole, that burned down in 1918.

Octavo (9 x 4 inches) Original, promotional staplebound brochure printed on stiff paper, with embossed gilt monogram "A" on upper left corner of front cover, folded once to form 12 unnumbered pages, illustrated with drawings and black and white halftone photos, map of Southern California and vicinity with local attractions in relation to the hotel's location.

Evocative of the early 1920s Hollywood: Art Nouveau style sepia drawings on the cover, and at lower margin on every page, projecting the elegance of the hotel; of guests enjoying fine dining, dancing, and golf, while socializing in furs and formal wear.

Very good condition (discreet Peck Judah rubber stamp on front cover, not affecting contents).

The hotel was on Wilshire Boulevard, and the location of the famous Coconut Grove nightclub. Both hotel and nightclub are gone, replaced by a high school.

Octavo (8 1/2 by 5 7/8 inches) New York: Julian Messner, 1952. First Edition. 183 pages, bibliography and index, decorated cloth, dust jacket with repaired tears protected by mylar, very good condition (small dent to top of top edge of front cover, not affecting text).

Semi-fictional biography written for the young reader. "Shannon Garst is well known for her fine biographies of men and women who have helped blaze the trail to freedom and progress. Born and reared in the west, and steeped from childhood in the lore of the wide open spaces, she turned naturally to specializing in books for young people, dealing with the western historical background."

Octavo (9 x 4 inch) folded paper brochure that unfolds to 32 inches, creating eight panels printed on both sides, illustrated with black and white half tone photo images of city landmarks, and tourist destinations; descriptive text; bird's-eye-view map across four panels showing the coastal plain intersected with unnamed highways radiating out from Los Angeles to surrounding areas from San Fernando to Capistrano; and communities in-between, among them Pasadena, San Bernardino, Redlands, Riverside, and Fullerton. The view stretches from Catalina to the snow capped mountains.

Color illustration on front cover of an idyllic Southern California scene featuring motoring, horseback riding, and golf with palm trees, sailboats, and hills in the background; also inset vignettes of a busy Downtown and a ship unloading in the harbor; very good condition (small square sticker advertising a local representative of the Rock Island Railroad on upper right of front panel. Previous owner's small rubber stamped name… Read More

Small octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches) Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1961. An Edition of 900 copies only of which 800 copies are for sale. Brick red cloth boards with embossed device of a covered wagon on the front cover. 100 pages illustrated with black and white historic photographs, index, Indian vocabulary, bibliography. Very good condition (previous owner's neat inscription and date on first fly leaf).

At the time of the California Gold Rush, shortly after the end of the Mexican War, in September 1849, Whipple and the man assigned to guard him, Cave Couts, were assigned to survey the new international boundary line in the vicinity of the Gila and Colorado rivers; as required by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

According to E. I. Edwards, who wrote the introduction, notes, and bibliography: "Of all the early accounts written by the emigrants of the gold trail who crossed our Southern California desert, none can claim quite the same degree of distinction that attaches to the Whipple Report .... "

12 mo. (8 x 4 3/4 inches) 1929. Stapled program of 31 pages, black and white halftone aerial panoramic photo on covers showing the Downtown skyline, with City Hall featured prominently. Double page map prepared by the Automobile Club of Southern California shows location of the Elk's Temple in the center and adjacent streets leading to Exposition Park, Hollywood, Elysian Park, Downtown, and the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific Depots. Original, wrappers, very good condition.

An agenda for day to day activities beginning July 5th, and ending July 13; including "Parade Day," "Coliseum Events," with sections on auto tours to Redondo Beach, Venice, Ocean Park, and Santa Monica. Names listed on the "Executive Committee" include Hellman, Janss, Doheny, Haggarty, and Warner.

16 mo. (6 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches) Los Angeles, "OFFICIAL PROGRAM for Saturday Evening, Dec. 4 1909 at New Turner Hall 321 South Main St." staple bound paper program of 14 unnumbered pages, one halftone captioned photo illustration of men standing at a bar: "Grand Annex, 106 So. Main St.;" good condition (old horizontal fold on front cover indicating it was previously folded in half, age toning and old liquid stains along margins, one tiny chip to lower corner of back wrapper, not affecting contents).

Many local advertisements for bars, cafes, groceries, billiard and pool halls, clothiers ("suits to order, $20 to $50"), wineries, horse shoeing stables, and political ads (one on last page: "A Village or a City? Vote For . . . " with a list of candidates for Mayor, City Clerk, City Attorney, Treasurer, Auditor, Tax Collector, Assessor, and Councilmen at Large: "The Prosperity and Progress of Los Angeles Concerns You Think It Over!")

"Grand March at 9 O'Clock." There are spaces where attendees can write… Read More

Small octavo (7 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches) San Bernardino, California: Times-Index Press, 1902. Original First Edition. 130 pages, frontis portrait of author, black and white pen and ink illustrations by Constance Farris, contents good, wrappers fragile (stiff and brittle charcoal wrappers repaired on front cover where split, repair to chip at upper right corner of front cover, contents not affected by both repairs), privately issued in a small edition, Rocq 7052, Cowan.

Topics include: Mexican pioneers, Indians, missions, San Bernardino branch mission, secularization, San Bernardino land grants, Isaac Williams of Rancho del Chino (first American to settle that part of the State of California); Mexican customs, Mormons, etc.

Octavo (9 1/4 x 7 inches) Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.: Published by Authority of the Legislature, 1870. First Trade Edition, Second Printing. 155 pages, illustrated with engraved cuts of scenery throughout the text, and eight full page engraved plates with protective tissue guards; maps in pockets missing.

Original green cloth trade binding, decorated with a map of the Sierra and surrounding country stamped in gilt on the front cover; and similarly, a logo of the Geological Survey team with their equipment stamped in gilt on the back cover; title in gilt on spine.

Good condition, showing the results of being carried in a pocket or ruck sack (the covers and corners of the fragile binding show some wear; lower right corner of front cover appears to have been bent). Inscription of previous owner dated "July 4, 1889, (In camp under the Royal Arches, Yosemite)" on front fly leaf, light pencil notation on a few pages not affecting text or illustrations, contents clean and intact; ticket of the… Read More